linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm: Fix SHM_HUGETLB to work with users in hugetlb_shm

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Message-ID: <20090205170617.GB7490@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:06:17 -0800
From:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>, wli@...ementarian.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	shai@...lex86.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: Fix SHM_HUGETLB to work with users in
	hugetlb_shm_group

On 05.02.2009 [11:03:09 +0900], KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> (cc to Mel and Nishanth)
> 
> I think this requirement is reasonable. but I also hope Mel or Nishanth
> review this.
> 
> 
> <<intentionally full quote>>
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:11:21PM -0500, wli@...ementarian.org wrote:
> > >On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:04:28PM -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> As I see it we have the following options to fix this inconsistency:
> > >> 1. Do not depend on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for hugetlb shm mappings.  If a user
> > >>    has CAP_IPC_LOCK or if user belongs to /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group,
> > >>    he should be able to use shm memory according to shmmax and shmall OR
> > >> 2. Update the hugetlbpage documentation to mention the resource limit based
> > >>    limitation, and remove the useless /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group sysctl
> > >> Which one is better?  I am leaning towards 1. and have a patch ready for 1.
> > >> but I might be missing some historical reason for using RLIMIT_MEMLOCK with
> > >> SHM_HUGETLB.
> > >
> > >We should do (1) because the hugetlb_shm_group and CAP_IPC_LOCK bits
> > >should both continue to work as they did prior to RLIMIT_MEMLOCK -based
> > >management of hugetlb. Please make sure the new RLIMIT_MEMLOCK -based
> > >management still enables hugetlb shm when hugetlb_shm_group and
> > >CAP_IPC_LOCK don't apply.
> > >
> > 
> > OK, here's the patch.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kiran
> > 
> > 
> > Fix hugetlb subsystem so that non root users belonging to hugetlb_shm_group
> > can actually allocate hugetlb backed shm.
> > 
> > Currently non root users cannot even map one large page using SHM_HUGETLB
> > when they belong to the gid in /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group.
> > This is because allocation size is verified against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource
> > limit even if the user belongs to hugetlb_shm_group.
> > 
> > This patch
> > 1. Fixes hugetlb subsystem so that users with CAP_IPC_LOCK and users
> >    belonging to hugetlb_shm_group don't need to be restricted with
> >    RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limits
> > 2. If a user has sufficient memlock limit he can still allocate the hugetlb
> >    shm segment.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>

Seems reasonable.

Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>

Thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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